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But the whole point that I kind of make in these later chapters in the book is there is no given, there is no structurally given subject of revolution. The subject of revolution is a subject, right? It's a subjective force, which means it has to be created through intentional human activity in certain kind of spaces of probability that are open structurally. But there is no given subject that's produced sheerly by the development of the productive forces, sheerly by kind of the accelerationist inertia of capitalism itself. revolutionary subject is always a political subject in the sense that it must be politically constructed. Right. And that theory, the theory of how you politically construct a form of revolutionary subjectivity is traditionally encompassed in the theory of the Communist Party.
Text: Politics as ressentiment entices Trump supporters. If you resign yourself to the reality that the political system is broken and that the world is burning, why not vote for the guy that trolls people you hate? Why not own the libs and drink liberal tearS? Clark says that Trump supporters are "as cynical as he is. Or rather, they are serious about spectacle. About the chanting, the hats, the latest insult. They know that's what politics now is." Some Trump supporters were motivated mainly by a desire to use slurs, which "wokeness" has taken away from them. Trump supporters believe that if the world is going to burn, they might as well have fun in the process. Fascism's embrace of nihilism is directly tied to its embrace of bad faith, as Sartre observed almost a century ago. You can't reason with fascists because they don't care about making sense. It's all a game.
If the real enemy is resignation, then we must instill a culture of hope and confidence everywhere we organize. Namely, we must make these two attitudes commonplace: 1) Your life isn't that hard. 2) The struggle for a new world is something you can take part in. It isn't going to shame you or exhaust you or abuse you or burn you out or make you fuck up or put you in harm's way. It isn't a job meant only for smart people, or perfect people, or extroverts, or abled people, or people with more privilege than you, or people with more experience of oppression than you. It's your job.